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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Massachusetts Favors No-Party System

MASSACHUSETTS FAVORS NO-PARTY SYSTEM

Parties may be over in Bridgewater (By Rebecca Hyman, The Enterprise/Wicked Local Bridgewater) Over the past three decades, there has been a steady defection away from the two-party system among Bridgewater voters in favor of the no-party system. In 1982, 51 percent of Bridgewater’s registered voters were unenrolled. By 2010, that number was up to 60 percent.